Welcome to the Polynational War Memorial, a proposal for a war memorial for all wars since World War II, which will include the names of more than 10 million killed soldiers and civilians. This site includes information about the project and is a collection of war memorials and monuments.

This website has been redesigned and restructured. One new section -- Presentations -- has been added. It includes information about the public presentations of the project. New pages have been created for acknowledgements and the design proposal, and specially the latter section will be updated with a lot of new material in the coming months.

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DESIGN PROJECT 2: UNIMUNE

The Unimune is the insititution at the Polynational War Memorial that will deal with research, education and negotiations. Read about this ongoing design project and the architects - Raumlabor, and view the renderings that were produced for the exhibition Loss at Wanås.

EDITORIAL 9: THE FULL SCOPE
posted: 2008-05-12 | Stockholm

The Polynational War Memorial project has developed very fast over the last seven months and the architectonic proposal that will be the product of the project's first phase has recently entered the public sphere.

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THE POLYNATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL AT WANÅS FROM MAY 18
posted: 2008-05-12 | Stockholm

The Polynational War Memorial project has developed very fast over the last seven months and the architectonic proposal that will be the product of the project's first phase has recently entered the public sphere. It is now time for the next step in the process, but allow me first to present a short update of the developments this year.

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FEATURED MEMORIAL

MEMORIAL CEMETERY TO THE VICTIMS OF HALABJA GAS ATTACK

Many political analysts now say that the execution of Saddam Hussein yesterday will prevent the many victims of his crimes from getting the justice that they desire. One example that is frequently mentioned is the gas attack on the Kurdish town Halabja in 1998 where around 5000 people perished. This is an public domain image of the memorial cemetary published by the U.S. federal government.

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PREVIOUSLY FEATURED MEMORIALS

2002 BALI BOMBINGS MEMORIAL IN KUTA Okt 1, 2005: Another series of bombs were detonated on October 1, 2005, in Bali. At least four simultaneous blasts killed over 25 people. The picture above shows the memorial that was erected after the 2002 Bali bombings. Read more >> Read more

The following database records have been added or updated since 2008-06-04

KIGALI MEMORIAL CENTER, RWANDA Type: Infosite Date updated/added: 15/06/08 VIEW DETAILS >>

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The Polynational War Memorial is a process-based, multidisciplinary and long-term art project with the objective of creating a healing architectural and sculptural object - a war memorial - commemorating fallen soldiers and killed civilians in all wars fought from World War II up to today.

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TIP: a search for "nam" will return info on The Vietnam Wars and the Namibian civil war

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